                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                   CHAPTER 73--OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
 
Sec. 1507. Picketing or parading

    Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or 
impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of 
influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the 
discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing 
a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence 
occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or 
with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to 
any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall 
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
    Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise 
by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.

(Added Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title I, Sec. 31(a), 64 Stat. 1018; 
amended Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 
1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $5,000'' in first par.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 50 sections 782, 795.
